| OCR Text |
Show Chronicle The Daily Utah Wednesday, February 24, 1999 -- Utah Basketball Gould Sweep WAG Titles Sterling Clifford Chronicle Sports Writer Men's Basketball Standings The WAC regular season comes to a close on Saturday, but it probably could m. urnm i W 12 L W L 22 8 o 4 UTEP 8 4 Fresno St. San Jose St. 7 5 5 2 16 18 4 6 9 7 7 10 12 10 1 11 3 10 13 14 19 21 Utah New Mexico BYU Hawaii San Diego St. 5 21 5 W L W L UNLV 8 4 10 Tulsa 7 7 7 5 15 19 5 5 16 8 8 13 12 6 6 6 6 18 8 8 5 7 10 15 10 Rice SMU TCU Colorado St. Wyoming Air Force 2 16 have ended three weeks ago and still had the same results. The Pacific Division of the conference has been dominated by Utah. And the Utes are equal opportunity bullies. Both the men's and women's basketball teams have been abusing conference opponents. Coach Rick Majerus and his boys haven't lost a game yet in WAC play and, barring an act of God, they won't. Utah has won 17 straight and, after falling out of the top 25 rankings early in the season, is ranked No. 12. "We wanted to win the conference championship," said Majerus. "That was our No. goal." An undefeated conference season would be a first in Utah history, and would make the WAC Tournament 1 9 14 Last Week's Winner: Alex Zlotnikow (13-3- next week seem almost pointless. A loss in the tournament is unlikely anyway, but it wouldn't represent the way things are in the conference. On the far side of the gender gap, the Utah women are also on the brink of a regular season title. The women's only loss came in the first game of the WAC season at BYU. Since then, they have won n straight, most of them easily. If the Utes get a win at UTEP on Thursday, they are guaranteed at least half of the season title. If they beat second-place New Mexico on Saturday, they own it outright. "We've known this is where wc should be," said Lori Red. The Utah women have won both the regular season and WAC tournament title in the same year. This year could be it. "I think the championship game will be Utah and Colorado State," said Utc forward Lindsay Sodja. Colorado State may be all that stands Winn New Mexico Utah Utah (65-3- Utah New Mexico (Worn) New Mexico Duke N. Arizona Standings early in season. What makes this season so remarkable is that neither team from Utah was supposed to do much this year. Majerus lost Mike Dolcac to the NBA, Britton Johnson, Trace Caton and Jon Carlisle to LDS missions, and two more players to transfers. W L W L 11 1 20 4 10 9 2 19 5 3 15 Hawaii 5 UTEP 7 15 11 9 9 9 8 13 17 12 2 18 23 Utah New Mexico BYU 7 5 Fresno St. 3 San Diego St. 3 The Utah coach spent most of the summer and the telling everyone his team wasn't very good. Women's head coach Elaine Elliott lost four of her starters at the end of the last season and started this year with no seniors. For the first half of the year, Elliott almost refused to comment on what her squad would do this season. Now two teams that were supposed to be starting over this year arc getting ready to collect the WAC titles. And nobody else can have one. o W 12 L W L Colorado St. o 27 1 3 Rice 9 8 TCU 7 5 UNLV 6 4 6 8 14 15 15 15 2 10 12 10 9 9 9 18 18 19 SMU Tulsa Wyoming Air Force for Big B&D Burgers Wally Utah Utah Utah Utah Utah Utah Utah Utah Utah Utah Utah. Utah Utah Utah (63-3- (70-26- Green ) Coles (55-4- Hancock (63-3- (67-2- Swinyard (64-32- ) Duke Duke Duke Duke Duke Duke Duke Duke Stanford Stanford Arizona Stanford Arizona Stanford Stanford Stanford Stanford UConn Connecticut Connecticut Connecticut UConn Connecticut Connecticut UConn Michigan St. Michigan St. Michigan St. Michigan St. Michigan St Purdue Michigan St. Michigan St. Indiana Indiana Indiana Indiana Indiana Iowa Indiana Indiana Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky Tennessee Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky Tennessee Oklahoma St. Oklahoma St. Oklahoma St. Oklahoma St. Oklahoma St. Oklahoma St. Oklahoma St Syracuse Michigan St. Purdue Indiana Tennessee Kentucky Oklahoma St. Oklahoma St. Texas Tech Arkansas Alabama Arkansas Arkansas Alabama Arkansas Arkansas Alabama Arkansas Arkansas Missouri Texas Texas Texas Texas Missouri Texas Missouri Texas Missouri Washington Xavier G. Xavier Xavier G.. Wash. Xavier G. Xavier Temple Temple Temple Temple UMass UMass Temple Temple TCU TCU TCU TCU TCU Tulsa TCU Tulsa Harvard Yale Harvard Harvard Yale Yale Harvard Harvard NE Louisiana SE Louisiana SE Louisiana NE Louisiana SE Louisiana NE Louisiana NE Louisiana NE Louisiana Xavier G. UMass Temple Tulsa TCU Harvard Yale NE Louis. SE Louis. Name. Washington o 4 6 6 5 Pick the winners, rip this out of the Chrony and turn it into 240 Union by 5 p.m. Friday. The best basketball bidders will benefit bodaciously by being bestowed a big and beefy B&D burger. Beefy Clifford (60 - 36) Martinez 96 San Jose St. Carolina Connecticut Iowa Women's Basketball ) Basketball Bids The Week's Games between Utah and the tournament championship. The Rams arc ranked fifth in the nation and beat the Utes Tiebreaker Pick the exact score of Harvard Phone. Washington Winners (77-19- ) Yale: Drive Into The New Millennium In Style! I '52s l I Bob never picks up a Chronicle... and it shows. WiMWZlZm'&i iffiEST t.1 il nt u m 1 m (a Join us at the Men's Basketball Game February 25, 1999 during half time to see who will win the Volkswagen New Beetle and other prizes! Don't let it pass you by 1 University Dining Services by: Choi "I wells 13 |
